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>2) there was no placebo group, just low dose and high dose. The investigators called low dose “placebo like,” which anyone familiar with microdosing knows is b
by oarabbus_ 7y ago
>2) there was no placebo group, just low dose and high dose. The investigators called low dose “placebo like,” which anyone familiar with microdosing knows is bullshit.
Care to elaborate? Microdoses are supposed to be below the active threshold.
- prostheticvamp 7y agoMicrodosing is beneath the hallucinogenic dose range, but not below the range of having any effect at all - eg, Prochazkova 2018, Anderson 2019 (both of the 2019 Anderson pubs). I’m not saying the microdosing studies are well done, but they surely prohibit taking for granted that microdosing is a placebo. What little evidence there is tilts away from that.
- oarabbus_ 7y ago>but they surely prohibit taking for granted that microdosing is a placebo. What little evidence there is tilts away from that. No, I don't believe that's true. In fact, this meta study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6364961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6364961/ actually explicitly mentions that the body of research doesn't support your claim about microdosing and placebo.